Participating in a forum

Now that we have our Discussion Forum completely set up, let's say it's the…first week of our term.…We want to make this Discussion Forum available to our students.…So, on the left-hand column we can go ahead and click the Edit Settings…option for this forum.…We can scroll down to the bottom of the page and simply change the Visible…setting from Hide to Show, then click the Save and return to course button.…We are taken back to Week 1, let me go ahead and scroll down on the page, we can…see that the Discussion Forum is now available to our student, hit the Move…right button to move it into the proper place.…

Now let's go ahead and logout of Moodle, by going back up to the top of our…screen and clicking the Logout button, and then let's log back in as a student.…Click the Login link, type in the Username Al and the Password of 12345.…Hit the Login link, and now we are back in as the student.…Go ahead and go back into course, Coral Reef Ecology and scroll down to…the bottom of Week 1.…here we can see the Week 1 Discussion Forum.…